Nothing else makes sense. If it's because demand what that nuts, you say that in the announcement. You thank they loyal fans and say you'll be back.
This is confirmed, I knew it was closing before they announced it because they sent employees home early Saturday with little explanation on the future after they had 2+ exposures. Keep in mind they are a small bakery so im sure the covid scares puts a heavy dent on their workforce and they need to plan, plus the exposures were recent so they needed to send everyone home and get them tested to see how many were really effected. I'm sure now they are re-evaluating staff and maybe even some extra safety implementations. Why they aren't being honest, I don't know, I'm sure they want to protect their brand but all the speculation was just a really bad look.
So are they shutting down any business that has exposure at WDW?
Two employees tested positive before they closed, the rest were exposed since one of the positives had worked as recently as Friday night with other workers so they couldn't be sure who would have been infected and wanted to be safe. Other businesses don't close for this but they, as I said, are a very small bakery and do not have the manpower to keep the demand with a shorter staff, especially since they weren't sure how many were exposed yet.So are you saying that employees got Covid or that there was a possible exposure? I think every restaurant would be closing consistently every time someone maybe got "exposed". I am not saying that they shouldn't take these precautions, but no one is. They usually just send the individual that had contact with the Covid patient home. The store I work for part time didn't even tell us that we were possibly exposed until days after. Can't loose a whole department the week of Thanksgiving.
See, I honestly don't know how to feel, I am not writing them off yet because it is a difficult choice how to address this and as a very small business who has just recently grown, they are still learning the ropes and don't have a professional PR/Marketing team. While I am also on the boat that I prefer honesty from establishments, I can see how they might be scared to call it a COVID related closure and make customers afraid of their brand, not everyone would be understanding. I also don't know if perhaps their contact at Disney Springs etc urged them to not address this as COVID related as it would be bad PR for the entire complex and maybe scare people off from going there while they try to safely address the issue. Yes, I know one store being exposed doesn't mean all are, but it would scare many consumers.
If they are lying I hope this business fails quickly. A larger question is how we’re all sitting here days later and have no idea whether customers were exposed to their Covid-positive employees, and no clear way of finding out.
I don't want to go into too much detail because since the owners are clearly not willing to share the real reason, I don't want my friend to be fired but I would swear by my sources, I am not saying this from hearsay, I know all of this from a personal friend who reached out scared as all of this was unfolding and they were afraid of having been exposed to the virus at work.
Business decisions are sometimes unfair but must be done .
To clarify, I agree that it needed to be done and I am glad they closed early and sent everyone home to get tested and make sure it didn't spread further. I was just trying to say that given all of that. the closure does not appear to have been pre-planned as the end of the soft opening.
I’m not sure how it works in Orange Co FL but here locally our newspaper publishes health code violations. I know when the local Mexican restaurant has water below a safe temperature or if the BBQ restaurant has rats in the freezer area. We should know if there are multiple Covid cases at a public establishment.